Abstract: The concept of career resilience, which is a quite new term in the field of career development, is generally defined as the ability to adapt to changing work environment, or to bounce back from one’s career adversities. There are various definitions of career resilience, which were classified into three types, i.e., quality (or trait), outcome, process in this paper. Four prevalent models of career resilience, i.e., the Model of London, the Model of Collard, the Model of Pulley, the Model of Conner, were introduced. The antecedent factors of career resilience include demographic variables, personal characteristic variables and work environment variables. For future research, more attention should be paid to career resilience’ structure and measurement, and experimental and longitudinal researches should be adopted to explore career resilience’s causes and effects.

Key words: career resilience, model, measurement, antecedent factors, intervention